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La gestion communautaire : une alternative pour la foret de Tiogo au Burkina Faso
Yelkouni, Martin - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine octobre (2005) 4, pp. 557-578
In Burkina Faso, forest is an imperfect public good : non-exclusion in the use of derived goods and services and rivalry in wood exploitation and the non-woody forest product consumption. The free access characterizing it and the free-riding behaviour lead to the forest resources an...
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Alternative indices of political freedoms, property rights, and political instability for Zambia
Fedderke, J.W.; Lourenco, I.; Gwenhamo, F. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
This paper presents new institutional measures for Zambia. Coverage is of political rights and freedoms, of property rights, and of political instability. The sample period is from 1947 to 2007. Comparison of the indices with directly comparable Zimbabwean and Malawian series, shows strong...
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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: A Solution to the Debate on Settler Mortality Rates
Auer, Raphael - Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) - 2007
my instruments are significant predictors of mortality and are otherwise excludable to institutions. Among other things … mortality strongly affected institutions in former colonies, yet it had no effect on institutions in the rest of the world. This … variable estimations, I show that also the relation between institutions and income is highly significant and that the …
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Property Rights, Institutions and Source of Fuel Wood in Rural Ethiopia
Damte, Abebe; Koch, Steven F. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and … - 2011
-level institutions, and household demand for fuel wood, as measured by the source from which fuel wood is collected. A multinomial … active local-level institutions reduce the dependency on community forests, but, otherwise, increase household dependency on …
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Clearings and Thickets
Cooter, Robert; Edlin, Aaron - Ratioinstitutet - 2011
Intellectual property law, which includes patents and copyright law, establishes the ownership of innovations by people. It conveys a bundle of rights to creators as determined by rules. Applied to intellectual property law, the normative question of growth economics is, “Which ownership rules...
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Inequality in Developing Economies: The Role of Institutional Development
Amendola, Adalgiso; Easaw, Joshy; Savoia, Antonio - Business School, University of Exeter - 2011
-democracy environments; (c) few countries have developed political institutions capable of counterbalancing this effect. …
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DIREITOS DE PROPRIEDADE, INVESTIMENTOS E CONFLITOS DE TERRA NO BRASIL
Nascimento, Vivian Ester De Souza; Saes, Maria Sylvia … - Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural - SOBER - 2008
A partir da segunda metade da década de noventa, após a fase de reestruturação e modernização da produção agrícola, as questões econômicas pertinentes aos conflitos de terra no Brasil ganharam maior grau de complexidade em virtude de significativas mudanças institucionais e das...
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Property Rights, Institutions and Source of Fuel Wood in Rural Ethiopia
Damte, Abebe; Koc, Steven F. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
-level institutions, and household demand for fuel wood, as measured by the source from which fuel wood is collected. A multinomial … active local-level institutions increase household dependency on open access forests, while land security reduces open access … forest dependence. However, local-level institutions are found to reduce the role of private fuel wood sources, while tenure …
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Competition among the elites, property rights protection and economic performance
Pan, Shiyuan - In: Journal of Economics 104 (2011) 2, pp. 139-158
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Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship without directing attention to quantitative goals and specific firms or employment groups. The institutional framework set by public policy affects the prevalence and performance...
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